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The unlikely rise of the Indian space program
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The IL-86: The Soviets' botched answer to the 747
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The Energia-Buran, as detailed by an eyewitness to the Soviet spaceplane before its destruction
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Former Lenin Museum in Tampere, which opened in 1946 as a symbol of Finnish-Russian friendship, has rebranded amid Ukraine war
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Trying cocktails from the USSR
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UK engineers turn Soviet R-73 missiles into Ukraine’s new Gravehawk air defense
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Soviet & Socialistic Grooves from 60s-70s / New Year Special by BASIC – L’atelier de Musique Ep006 (2024)
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Why the Soviet Union was obsessed with corn
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How a Soviet zoologist remade the Azerbaijan animal species population
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Declassified memo from US codebreaker sheds light on Ethel Rosenberg's Cold War spy case
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Divers find remains of Finnish World War II plane that was shot down by Moscow with a US diplomat aboard
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Book borrowed from Finnish library returned eighty-four years late – copy of Arthur Conan Doyle's Refugees was due to be returned month after USSR invaded Finland
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What the first astronauts (and cosmonauts) ate - food in space
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How the Berlin Wall worked
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Britain’s vast network of abandoned nuclear bunkers | Cold War UK
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The Ladoga was the Soviet Union’s plush nuclear-war command vehicle. A drone just blew one up in Eastern Ukraine.
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Salvage of the century: The lost WWII gold of HMS Edinburgh
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How Finland survived a 1,000,000+ Soviet invasion (1939-1940)
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Why this math professor objects to diversity statements
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What the Prisoner's Dilemma reveals about life, the Universe, and everything
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The insane machine that conquered Antarctica for the USSR - the Kharkovchanka
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History of country code top-level domains, with a map of the most popular ones in use | Map Men
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The Day After - Forty years ago my father scared 100 million viewers in America
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The insane engineering of the F-16
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US President John F. Kennedy's "Peace Speech"
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The fascinating story behind Sergei Bondarchuk’s 1968 epic War and Peace (2019)
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Soviet flying aircraft carriers were ingenious
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New USSR camera and pictures
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The psychedelic drug that conquered Europe
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Camp Century - The hidden city beneath the ice
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Why Oppenheimer deserves his own movie
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Scenes from a fallen empire: Abandoned Russian bases dot Mongolia’s border
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Cold War British RMP video shown to travellers before driving from West Germany to West Berlin through the Soviet East German corridor
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Buzludzha was the pinnacle of Bulgaria’s communist-era monuments and drew international visitors as a modern ruin. Now, it’s poised to be the country’s first monument presented like a museum.
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Inside the secret world of Russia's Cold War mapmakers
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The world's greatest fighter jet: The F-15 Eagle
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Czechia's incredible 1960s supervillain-lair hotel (and why its architect got banned by the regime)
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A beginner's guide to Soviet animated cinema
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US pilot shot down four Soviet MiGs in thirty minutes – and kept it a secret for fifty years
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The story of Tetris
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Why you wouldn’t want to fly the first Soviet jetliner
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Military operations in East Ukraine (1919-1942)
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9/26 is Petrov Day
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With Stalinist architecture, a prominent bust of Vladimir Lenin and posters extolling the motherland, Pyramiden is the abandoned Soviet mining town in Norway's Arctic
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The race to save Ukraine’s sacred art
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Russians reportedly turn to old Soviet-era tactics to watch western movies
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The world’s fastest bomber: The XB-70 Valkyrie
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The (rather pathetic) economy of Russia, explained
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Chernobyl's death toll (or, how I learned to live with Chernobyl's legacy)
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